Re: [PATCH 7/8] mm: thp: Use more portable PMD clearing sequenece in zap_huge_pmd().

[Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 06:27:41PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Invalidation sequences are handled in various ways on various
> architectures.
> 
> One way, which sparc64 uses, is to let the set_*_at() functions
> accumulate pending flushes into a per-cpu array.  Then the
> flush_tlb_range() et al. calls process the pending TLB flushes.
> 
> In this regime, the __tlb_remove_*tlb_entry() implementations are
> essentially NOPs.
> 
> The canonical PTE zap in mm/memory.c is:
> 
> 			ptent = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, pte,
> 							tlb->fullmm);
> 			tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, pte, addr);
> 
> With a subsequent tlb_flush_mmu() if needed.
> 
> Mirror this in the THP PMD zapping using:
> 
> 		orig_pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(tlb->mm, addr, pmd);
> 		page = pmd_page(orig_pmd);
> 		tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
> 
> And we properly accomodate TLB flush mechanims like the one described
> above.

Thanks for the explanation.

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

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